Fictions from an Orphan State: Literary Reflections of Austria Between Habsburg and Hitler

by Andrew Barker

The literary flair of fin-de-si cle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from those in Weimar Germany, Austrian literary culture, though frequently associated with Jewish writers deeply attached to the concept of an independent Austria, reflected the republic's ever-deepening...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135316
• ISBN13: 9781571135315
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"